NEW!! Eleuke Ukulele Tenor Les Paul Style Electric Steel String Solid Body Cutaway, Acacia Wood

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• Les Paul Solid Body Style, KOA (Acacia Wood Veneer) Top and Back
• Coil and Piezo Dual Pickup System
• White Maple Neck with Rosewood Finger Board 19 Frets
• Steel Truss Rod Reinforcement
• Headphone and MP3 3.5mm jacks

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The ukulele, is a derivative of a Portuguese instrument that Hawaiians adapted into what we know as a Uke. This steel stringed instrument, is great quality, the sound is unique, but, it's not a ukulele. Semantics aside, it is really fun to play. Experience, helps. It does not tune to the normal tenor uke tuning scale. But, if you have some knowledge and skill, you'll pick it up fairly quickly. The good news, if you want it to be more like a uke, is that you can change the strings out, leaving the C string steel, with vinyl strings, and it still sounds great, yet, tunes and plays like a Uke. The placement and quality of the pick ups are beyond what has been offered at these prices in crossover, acoustic/electric ukes. It is heavy and you may want to figure out a way to "sling" it. But, especially with an equalizer, this thing is a blast and can make very large sounds with crisp enunciation, string to string.

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I was looking for a plug-in, steel-stringed, magnetic-pick-upped electric uke. Though the Eleuke Tenor Les Paul Style Electric Steel String Solid Body uke has the basic elements, it still misses widely enough that it left me a bit disappointed. Setup-wise, the odd choice of tuning, (Low A#, D#, G, C), 1 1/2 steps higher than usual, yields an unfortunately limited timbre and range. (I find the higher pitch to be more quickly grating, and the absence of re-entrant tuning to leave the whole thing mono-dimensional). I will certainly at some point research strings that could sound better at the lower, standard tuning, and give me the standard, not lower, G to go with it, but that's an annoying necessity when spending over a couple hundred bucks on a rig like this. (And I'm not smart enough to know if that's going to set anything else out of whack and mess with the intonation). As for the physics of the thing, the frets and intonation are decent as delivered, but the tuners are cheesy and poorly-suited towards dialing the thing in and keeping it there. The pickups are not all that "hot", so getting a good sound out of any given amp takes a little work, but I guess you get what you pay for... If I had to do it over again, I'd have kept looking for better, but it certainly functions, and I guess that's the best I can say for it.